HELENA — More details have surfaced about new legislation that would allow NorthWestern Energy to buy a bigger share of the Colstrip plant for a bargain.
Senate Bill 278 would allow an electric utility to purch...

POLSON – The 2018-19 high school basketball season produced several all-state and all-conference players from around the Mission Valley, selected by representatives in each respective conference.
Seniors Greg W...

My husband and I had to make a trip to the home improvement store last weekend for one item, just one. We started out together, but after a cursory period, we found ourselves involuntarily separated.
We were looking ...

POLSON – Another state championship has arrived for the Mission Valley athletic landscape this weekend. The Osprey gymnastics team will represent the valley during the 2019 Montana State Gymnastics Championships. ...

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Despite rumors that no cherries were being picked or shipped, the Finley Point cherry plant is processing about 100,000 pounds of Flathead cherries per day, local Monson Fruit Company representative Brian Campbell said.
Last week, the plant did stop taking lambert cherries for a day or two until the market flushed out the full warehouses in Washington.
“Buyers heard we have had some showers and rainstorms,” Campbell said, “so they’ve been reluctant to buy lamberts.”
Moisture makes lamberts soft, and traditionally lamberts don’t hold up well to shipping, according to Campbell, adding that lamberts are great cherries for fruit stands.
Cher...

The sun was just begining to set on a crisp Saturday night in Ronan. The air carried the smells of autumn, turning leaves and the promise of winter as cowboys, ranchers and audience members alike looked to the stadium’s center.
Standing in the middle of Ronan’s rodeo grounds, the announc...

ARLEE - Jennifer Greene, a Salish playwright, sits onstage at the Hangin’ Art Gallery in downtown Arlee late Friday night. Her play, “The Hellgate Treaty,” has just been read aloud by several performers to a chorus of applause and cheers.
“I’m not good with names and fa...

JOCKO VALLEY — White Coyote Road lies just a few miles north of Arlee on U.S. Highway 93. A short stretch of pavement much like any other in the valley, you could pass it at speed and never know it was there.
However, unlike other roads in the valley, White Coyote Road contains a beacon of pea...

POLSON — Chelsey Michele Eklund of Butte and Nicholas James Gochis of Polson have announced their plans to wed Aug. 10, 2012 in Polson. The bride graduated from the University of Montana in 2008 and is employed as an accountant at the Montana Department of Revenue. The groom received a B.A. from the Un...

“She never stopped looking for him. He never stopped thinking about her,” the wedding announcement reads.
The high school sweethearts didn’t connect for years.
Jeri Ann Currie, now Halford, and Claryl Haggard grew up east of Highway 93 between Ronan and Pablo.
Although both familie...

At a July 21 ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Charleen Crenshaw of Ronan was officially pinned as a senior leader moving from staff sergeant to sergeant first class as of July 1. This was the second promotion to a senior leadership position that the platoon would receive during its deployment.
Cre...

ARLEE - While nothing is set in stone, the Arlee School Board is planning to cut around 20 percent of its annual budget.
Superintendent George Linthicum says the preemptive cuts stem from the potential loss of Impact Aid at the federal level.
He explained that Impact Aid is received from th...

POLSON — Discounted Starbucks coffee prices apparently led to employees being fired or asked to resign at Safeway. Rumor in Polson has the number of employees at 24 while Sarah Osborne, Safeway public and government affairs director, said only three employees were terminated in Polson.
Employe...